Bob Dylan is famous as a musician and protest song writer of the 1960's. He is also an American Romantic visionary poet in the tradition of Emily Dickenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Whitman and Thoreau. Dylan, as a poet is an American Romantic visionary:
in the tradition of Hawthorne, Whitman and Thoreau. In other words
he is one more among the distinguished progeny of Ralph Waldo
(1803--1882). Dylan's debt to Emerson has hardly been noticed, and yet
he is a thoroughly traditional Emersonian Transcendentalist. In all his
guises, Dylan preaches the Emersonian gospel of "self-reliance". Here
is Emerson: "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
And Dylan: "Trust yourself / Trust yourself to know the way that will
prove true in the end."
The song simply and sublimely explores themes of love, loss and mortality.
This is Bob Dylan as the Jeremiah of the heart, torching romantic verse and "the girl" with a firestorm of unforgiving words.
Tangled Up In Blue lyrics Songwriters: Dylan, Bob;
Early one mornin', the sun was shinin'
He was lyin' in bed
Wonderin' if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red
Her folks, they said, our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like Mama's homemade dress
Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough
And he was standin' on the side of the road
Rain fallin' on his shoes
Heading out for the old East Coast
Lord knows, he's paid some dues gettin' through
Tangled up in blue
She was married when they first met And your magazine-husband who one day just had to go….
Soon to be divorced
He helped her out of a jam, I guess
But he used a little too much force
And they drove that car as far as they could
Abandoned it out west
And split up on a dark sad night
Both agreein' it was best
And she turned around to look at him
'Cause he was walkin' away
She said, "This can't be the end
We'll meet on another day, on the avenue"
Tangled up in blue
He had a job in the old North Woods
Workin' as a cook for a spell
But he never did like it all that much
And one day the ax just fell
When he drifted down to L.A.
Where he reckoned to try his luck
Workin' for a while on an airplane plant
Loading cargo on to a truck
But all the while he was alone
The past was close behind
He'd seen a lot of women
But she never escaped his mind, and he just grew
Tangled up in blue
She was workin' in a topless place
I stopped in for beer
I just kept lookin' at the side of her face
In the spotlight so clear
And later on, as the crowd thinned out
I was about to do the same
She was standing there in back of my chair
Said to me, "What's your name?"
I muttered somethin' underneath my breath
She studied the lines on my face
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
Tangled up in blue
She lit a burner on the stove
And offered me a pipe
"I thought you'd never say hello", she said
"You look like the silent type"
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul, from me to you
Tangled up in blue
He was always in a hurry
Too busy or too stoned
And everything that she ever planned
Just had to be postponed
We thought they were successful
She thought they were blessed
With objects and material things
But I never was impressed
And when it all came crashin' down The love of his life has gone
I became withdrawn and left has left
The only thing I knew how to do
Was keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew
Tangled up in blue
So now I'm going back again
I got to get to her somehow
All the people we used to know
They're an illusion to me now
Some are mathematicians
Some are doctor's wives
Don't know how it all got started
Don't know what they're doin' with their lives
But me, I'm still on the road
Headin' for another joint
We always did feel the same
We just saw it from a different point of view
Tangled up in blue
Sara will be forever immortalized as Bob's first wife, the mother of four of his children, and his artistic muse.
mostly related to Bob's alleged affairs with other women, namely long-time lover Joan Baez. Sara and Joan co-starred with Bob in the 1978 movie Renaldo and Clara, shedding a humorous light on the love triangle.
She might think that I've forgotten her, don't tell her it isn't so.
Sara, Sara
It's all so clear,
I could never forget
Sara, Sara
Lovin' you is the one thing
I'll never regret
The songs "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" and "Sara" specifically state just how much Bob Dylan adored this woman.
Love Sick
I’m walking through streets that are dead
Walking, walking with you in my head
My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
And the clouds are weeping
Did I hear someone tell a lie?
Did I hear someone’s distant cry?
I spoke like a child; you destroyed me with a smile
While I was sleeping
I’m sick of love but I’m in the thick of it
This kind of love I’m so sick of it
I see, I see lovers in the meadow
I see, I see silhouettes in the window
I watch them ’til they’re gone and they leave me hanging on
To a shadow
I’m sick of love; I hear the clock tick
This kind of love; I’m love sick
Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder
Sometimes I feel like I’m being plowed under
Could you ever be true? I think of you
And I wonder
I’m sick of love; I wish I’d never met you
I’m sick of love; I’m trying to forget you
Just don’t know what to do
I’d give anything to be with you
In this nowhere café 'fore night turns into day
I wonder why I’m so frightened of dawn
All I have and all I know
Is this dream of you which keeps me living on
There’s a moment when
All old things become new again
But that moment might have come and gone
All I have and all I know
Is this dream of you which keeps me living on
I look away but I keep seeing it
I don’t want to believe but I keep believing it
Shadows dance upon the wall
Shadows that seem to know it all
Am I too blind to see
Is my heart playing tricks on me
I’m lost in the crowd, all my tears are gone
All I have and all I know
Is this dream of you which keeps me living on
Everything I touch seems to disappear
Everywhere I turn, you are always here
I’ll run this race until my earthly death
I’ll defend this place with my dying breath
From a cheerless room
In a curtain gloom, I saw a star from heaven fall
I turned and looked again but it was gone
All I have and all I know
Is this dream of you which keeps me living on
Somethin' is happenin' here and you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?
Bob Dylan was mostly famous as a protest song writer, a poet and musician who captured a cultural movement in the 1960's. But some of his older songs were romantic as well, As an American Romantic visionary poet in the tradition of Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Whitman and Thoreau,. Dylan wrote torching romantic verse about "the girl" with a firestorm of unforgiving words. He put his words to music and sang in his nasal voice while accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica.
Bob Dylan is famous as a musician and protest song writer of the 1960's. He is also an American Romantic visionary poet in the tradition of Emily Dickenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Whitman and Thoreau. Dylan, as a poet is an American Romantic visionary:
The song simply and sublimely explores themes of love, loss and mortality.
This is Bob Dylan as the Jeremiah of the heart, torching romantic verse and "the girl" with a firestorm of unforgiving words.
Tangled Up In Blue lyrics
Songwriters: Dylan, Bob;
Early one mornin', the sun was shinin'
He was lyin' in bed
Wonderin' if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red
Her folks, they said, our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like Mama's homemade dress
Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough
And he was standin' on the side of the road
Rain fallin' on his shoes
Heading out for the old East Coast
Lord knows, he's paid some dues gettin' through
Tangled up in blue
She was married when they first met And your magazine-husband who one day just had to go….
Soon to be divorced
He helped her out of a jam, I guess
But he used a little too much force
And they drove that car as far as they could
Abandoned it out west
And split up on a dark sad night
Both agreein' it was best
And she turned around to look at him
'Cause he was walkin' away
She said, "This can't be the end
We'll meet on another day, on the avenue"
Tangled up in blue
He had a job in the old North Woods
Workin' as a cook for a spell
But he never did like it all that much
And one day the ax just fell
When he drifted down to L.A.
Where he reckoned to try his luck
Workin' for a while on an airplane plant
Loading cargo on to a truck
But all the while he was alone
The past was close behind
He'd seen a lot of women
But she never escaped his mind, and he just grew
Tangled up in blue
She was workin' in a topless place
I stopped in for beer
I just kept lookin' at the side of her face
In the spotlight so clear
And later on, as the crowd thinned out
I was about to do the same
She was standing there in back of my chair
Said to me, "What's your name?"
I muttered somethin' underneath my breath
She studied the lines on my face
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
Tangled up in blue
She lit a burner on the stove
And offered me a pipe
"I thought you'd never say hello", she said
"You look like the silent type"
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul, from me to you
Tangled up in blue
He was always in a hurry
Too busy or too stoned
And everything that she ever planned
Just had to be postponed
We thought they were successful
She thought they were blessed
With objects and material things
But I never was impressed
And when it all came crashin' down The love of his life has gone
I became withdrawn and left has left
The only thing I knew how to do
Was keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew
Tangled up in blue
So now I'm going back again
I got to get to her somehow
All the people we used to know
They're an illusion to me now
Some are mathematicians
Some are doctor's wives
Don't know how it all got started
Don't know what they're doin' with their lives
But me, I'm still on the road
Headin' for another joint
We always did feel the same
We just saw it from a different point of view
Tangled up in blue
Sara will be forever immortalized as Bob's first wife, the mother of four of his children, and his artistic muse.
mostly related to Bob's alleged affairs with other women, namely long-time lover Joan Baez. Sara and Joan co-starred with Bob in the 1978 movie Renaldo and Clara, shedding a humorous light on the love triangle.
She might think that I've forgotten her, don't tell her it isn't so.
Sara, Sara
It's all so clear,
I could never forget
Sara, Sara
Lovin' you is the one thing
I'll never regret
The songs "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" and "Sara" specifically state just how much Bob Dylan adored this woman.
Love Sick
I’m walking through streets that are deadWalking, walking with you in my head
My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
And the clouds are weeping
Did I hear someone tell a lie?
Did I hear someone’s distant cry?
I spoke like a child; you destroyed me with a smile
While I was sleeping
I’m sick of love but I’m in the thick of it
This kind of love I’m so sick of it
I see, I see lovers in the meadow
I see, I see silhouettes in the window
I watch them ’til they’re gone and they leave me hanging on
To a shadow
I’m sick of love; I hear the clock tick
This kind of love; I’m love sick
Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder
Sometimes I feel like I’m being plowed under
Could you ever be true? I think of you
And I wonder
I’m sick of love; I wish I’d never met you
I’m sick of love; I’m trying to forget you
Just don’t know what to do
I’d give anything to be with you
In this nowhere café 'fore night turns into day
I wonder why I’m so frightened of dawn
All I have and all I know
Is this dream of you which keeps me living on
There’s a moment when
All old things become new again
But that moment might have come and gone
All I have and all I know
Is this dream of you which keeps me living on
I look away but I keep seeing it
I don’t want to believe but I keep believing it
Shadows dance upon the wall
Shadows that seem to know it all
Am I too blind to see
Is my heart playing tricks on me
I’m lost in the crowd, all my tears are gone
All I have and all I know
Is this dream of you which keeps me living on
Everything I touch seems to disappear
Everywhere I turn, you are always here
I’ll run this race until my earthly death
I’ll defend this place with my dying breath
From a cheerless room
In a curtain gloom, I saw a star from heaven fall
I turned and looked again but it was gone
All I have and all I know
Is this dream of you which keeps me living on
Bob Dylan was mostly famous as a protest song writer, a poet and musician who captured a movement at just the right time in history. But some of his older songs were romantic as well, and often overlooked amid the cultural significance and influence of works like "Times They Are a-Changin;" and "Blowin' In the Wind."Let's take a look at some of Bob Dylan's most famous and most romantic songs and try to do two things. One, we will attempt to decipher what this legendary sage was trying to say about love, and two, we'll try to determine Dylan's most romantic lullaby."I Want You"Bob Dylan's famous song "I Want You" deserves to be on this list of romantic songs, even if the song only superficially gets romantic. Based on the nasally way Dylan sings the chorus of "I want you" repeated and "so bad' at the end, you'd think he was being sarcastic, but really it's just Bob Dylan's singing style, which you'll see if you get Bob Dylan tickets online. Most of the lyrics besides the chorus aren't too much about love in the standard sense.Bob can't help but get metaphorical and headsy, bringing up "drunken politicians" and the "Queen of Spades." The closest Bob gets to romancing his audience is near the end of the song when he sings, "I returned to the Queen of Spades/ Talked with my chambermaid/ She knows that I'm not afraid to look at her/ She's good to me/ There's nothing she don't see/ She knows where I would rather be/ But that doesn't matter." Apparently his face displays his love for another woman so plainly that his "chambermaid" can sense it."Lay Lady Lay"The main chorus line of "Lay Lady Lay" is, "Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed." Laying on beds is certainly sexy, especially when, near the end of the song, Bob sings: "Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead/ I long to see you in the morning light/ I long to reach for you in the night." What else could he be talking about here? Bob even gets complimentary, telling his lover, "And you're the best thing that he's ever seen." While it might not be as intellectual and rife with double meanings, "Lay Lady Lay" is sure heavy on physical love."True Love Tends to Forget"Bob gets realistic about love in "True Love Tends to Forget." Gone is the honeymoon of "Lay Lady Lay" where sweet nothings are whispered and two lovers lounge in bed all day and through the night. Dylan has aged here, been through hard times and realized that loving someone means letting go of regret. Dylan admits that the woman he loves hurts him sometimes, but he still needs her, exemplified by the lyrics, "You're a tearjerker, baby, but I'm under your spell,/ You're a hard worker, baby, and I know you well./ But this weekend in hell is making me sweat."What's the most romantic Bob Dylan Song? It depends. Do you think of love analytically, metaphorically and politically? Do you believe love is all longing glances and spooning? Or do you think love is shown in forgiveness and mercy? Which one is correct? The answer to that, my friend, is blowing in the wind.